Re: Packets for Rally attendees?
Well, today is Friday. Nancy and I arrived here at the Fairgrounds on Wednesday and slowly, the "rally core team" has been trickling in. And the heaving lifting has begun!
All the documentation printing has been completed. What huge print job that was. Thank you Office Max
Cookie (Dave H) and several volunteers have got 500+ T-shirts folded and all the rally bag stuff organized and ready for stuffing later today.
Jay (JayC) and Bernie (happykraut) brought down from my Elkhart storage and organized the door prizes, then jumped onto Cookie's team along with their wives to help with rally bag organization.
Dave (davebennington) and Julie (clubmgr) are here. Julie hit the ground running getting all the tickets (Pre-Rally Tour 1, Pre-Rally Tour 2, Amish Dinner, Bison Ranch and Elkhart Bus) organized and labeled. She's conscripted Dave to help with that too. They were up real late last night working on that as they go in the rally packets this morning!
Kevin W and Roy (olcoon) and their spouses started getting the lay of the land here making sure the venue is all set physically. Had a few trees trimmed, located all of the tricky sites and are preparing to paint out the boundaries of a bunch of sites.
Terry H arrived yesterday and he's getting ready to settle into his role of being my co-wagonmaster.
Michael and Kelly (2psnapod2 and 1) arrived late yesterday and are ready to go to work too.
There's several Heartlanders up in Elkhart at Elkhart Campground staying by J. Bernie's up there, TXBobcat's up there and others.
Here at the Fairgrounds, a few Heartlanders that are not part of the core team, are already here. Bill L and Barb Y (bacaye) arrived yesterday and Paul and Nan L arrived yesterday as well. Paul and Nan have a service appt. with RV Capital Service Center today.
I ran around helping coordinate a few things for the teams and then spent a good part of the day producing thousands of various labels for tickets envelopes, raffle tickets etc. Thank goodness for my Dymo Twin Turbo label printer. That think flies once I get the date files ready and label templates designed.
14 of us went out to dinner about 7 last night. Tried to go to Steak and Shake and there wasn't an empty seat there. Regrouped and headed to Applebees. Better choice. Had a great time and Kevin endeared himself with the manager and he gave us all a Military discount. We had several veterans in our group to (Kevin, Nelly, Roy, Paul and Michael).
Today will be a busy day for most teams again. I head out to pickup one last print job I forgot to send to the printer the first time, plus more envelopes. Julie finishes up tickets then Dave's team begins stuffing rally bags. That's a HUGE job! Kevin's team will be busy with site work.
Busy here at the rally venue, working hard and having fun too!
